industrial overlord

Chapter 276 Old Engineer
In the following two or three days, Lin Zhenhua and his party went to the Ministry of Foreign Trade, the State Economic Commission, the State Planning Commission and other units, and visited He Haifeng in his private capacity.All units have similar attitudes towards the project of the Siya tribe. They think the project is a good project, but the location is too inappropriate. Whether it is due to political considerations or safety considerations, this project should be postponed.

The people in the ministries and committees are naturally more official than the truth to Lin Zhenhua and others, and they are probably speaking from the principles of internationalism and the third world.He Haifeng is relatively more realistic. He reminded Lin Zhenhua that this project is too risky, and if something goes wrong, it will affect Lin Zhenhua's future, so it is better to be cautious.However, He Haifeng also admitted that if this project can be completed, it will be very beneficial for Chinese enterprises to enter the African market.

I have been active in Beijing for a few days, but there is no result.Chen Tian replied with a letter, saying that he had already reported the matter to his father, and the old man promised to find an opportunity to mention it to the relevant leaders, but this opportunity will have to wait, so let Lin Zhenhua and the others go back to Xunyang first It's better to be busy with your own business.

The day before his departure, Lin Zhenhua arranged for everyone to have free activities, while he wanted to stay in the guest house and have a good sleep.Wei Dongqi went around the shopping mall next to the guest house, bought a lot of pastries, supplements and so on, and then began to change clothes and brush shoes, as if he was going to visit some relatives and friends.

"Old Wei, why, do you have relatives in Beijing?" Lin Zhenhua asked casually while lying on the bed.

Wei Dongqi shook his head and said, "No, it's an old engineer I met in the past. I haven't seen him for more than ten years, and I don't know if he's still here."

"Are you very old?" Lin Zhenhua asked.

Wei Dongqi calculated with his fingers, and said: "It should be almost 70, he was almost 60 back then, and the old man's health is not very good."

"What does he do?"

"By the way, Manager Lin, who is engaged in oil refining equipment, he was in our 11-ton ethylene research team back then. He is my teacher in terms of technology and experience. When we worked together, he was very kind to me. Treat me like my junior." Wei Dongqi said with a bit of nostalgia.

"Oh, that's it?" Lin Zhenhua heard that he was engaged in oil refining equipment, and he immediately regained his energy. He jumped off the bed and said, "Let's go, Lao Wei, let's go and have a look together."

Wei Dongqi hesitated and said: "Manager Lin, I don't even know if he is still alive. Also, when we separated, he only left me a home address. It has been more than 10 years. I don’t know if he still lives there, if not, it’s just a waste of money.”

Lin Zhenhua said disapprovingly: "Let's just throw it away. Anyway, there's nothing to do today. It's time to go shopping in Beijing. Just right, I'll drive you there."

In order to facilitate the activities of Lin Zhenhua and others, Chen Tian left a jeep for Lin Zhenhua.Among the three of them, Lin Zhenhua and Xiang Zhe could both drive, and both had driver's licenses in Xunyang.At that time, there were not many cars on the roads in Beijing, and parking was convenient. It was indeed much more convenient to do things with a car at hand.

Wei Dongqi knew Lin Zhenhua's temper, so he didn't shirk it.Lin Zhenhua helped Wei Dongqi carry the large and small bags of presents, put them on the back seat of the jeep, and then drove the car himself, leading Wei Dongqi to a worker's dormitory area in the southeast corner of Beijing.

On the way, Wei Dongqi gave Lin Zhenhua a detailed introduction to the situation of the old engineer he was going to see.The old man's name is He Chengshan, and he is an engineer for a chemical equipment company in Beijing, specializing in low-temperature equipment manufacturing.More than ten years ago, the State Planning Commission organized 11 tons of ethylene technology to tackle key problems, and a technical team led by He Chengshan was responsible for the development of ethylene compressors and propylene compressors.

An ethylene cracking unit includes more than 300 pieces of equipment, the core of which is also the most technically difficult is the so-called "three ethylene machines", namely cracking gas compressors, ethylene compressors and propylene compressors.Among the three machines, the inlet temperature of the propylene compressor is minus 40 degrees Celsius, and the inlet temperature of the ethylene compressor is minus 102 degrees Celsius, which belong to low-temperature compressors.

Under low temperature conditions, the mechanical properties of various materials will change.Metals that are extremely hard at room temperature can be as brittle as particleboard at low temperatures.The compressor is a device that works under high pressure conditions, and the requirements for the toughness of the material are very high.Because of this, the material selection, structural design, and manufacturing process of cryogenic compressors are all technical problems worldwide.

In the research project more than ten years ago, the project team finally failed to solve these technical problems, which led to the failure of the entire project.After the failure of the project, the technicians of the research team returned to their respective work units. Wei Dongqi has never seen He Chengshan since then.

"Master, please inquire about how to get to this address..."

Neither Lin Zhenhua nor Wei Dongqi had ever been to this place called "Shuangjing". Lin Zhenhua had barely heard of this address in his previous life, but that was limited to knowing that it was a station name on the subway line.Helpless, the two had no choice but to drive forward while poking their heads out of the car window to ask passers-by.

"Shuangjing Nanli, oh, I know, that's the family courtyard of the Fifth Chemical Factory, right?...You two go straight south from here, and then go east when you see a water tower, about 500 meters ahead, what is there? There are two chimneys, you go under the second chimney, there is an alley, follow that alley and go south..." The enthusiastic old man in the capital kept talking and making gestures, and before he could finish speaking, Wei Dongqi was already fainted.

After walking through countless water towers and chimneys, Lin Zhenhua and Wei Dongqi finally found the residential area on the address. It was a residential area consisting of more than a dozen six-story apartment buildings built in the 50s. Poplar trees, which block out the sky and the sun, look very shady in the midsummer afternoon.

"Comrade, who are you looking for?"

At the gate of the community, an old lady with small feet approached vigilantly, stopped the jeep, looked at the two people in the car and asked. She wore a red cuff on her arm and looked like a red guard.

"17, Gate 3, Building 402, He Chengshan." Wei Dongqi showed the address slip to the old lady with little feet, and asked at the same time: "Auntie, please ask, does this old gentleman still live here?"

"What's your relationship with him? Do you have anything to do with him?" The old lady asked very professionally.

Wei Dongqi said: "I can be regarded as his colleague, come and see him."

"Colleague? Where are you and him as colleagues?"

"Uh... We have done technical research together in the past, Mr. He is my teacher. By the way, I am from Hanhua Heavy Industry Group in Jiangnan Province. This is my work card." Wei Dongqi took out his work card and handed it to him. old lady.

The old lady looked at her work card seriously, then nodded and said: "Oh, you are still the director, then you go in. Then who, you are the driver, you park the car under the tree over there." Her back One sentence was addressed to Lin Zhenhua.

"He's not the driver, he's..." Wei Dongqi quickly tried to explain.

"Hehe, I'm the driver." Lin Zhenhua grinned.Judging from their ages, it is most reasonable to say that Lin Zhenhua is Wei Dongqi's driver.If Lin Zhenhua was Wei Dongqi's superior, the old lady would call the police immediately, thinking that these two must be liars.The simplest evidence is: In this world, how can there be a deputy general manager who can drive?
"Auntie, will Mr. He be home at this time?" Wei Dongqi asked.

"Don't go to his house to look for him. At this time of the day, he is teaching a group of children downstairs. Look there, he is the one teaching the children there." The old lady pointed at the community. A shade said.

"Class? What class?"

Lin Zhenhua and Wei Dongqi, full of suspicion, thanked the old lady and walked towards the shaded area.When I came to the front, I saw more than a dozen middle-aged children who looked like high school students sitting under the shade of a tree, listening to the class attentively.On the tree in front of them, there was a blackboard that seemed to be painted with black paint on a bed board. An old man was writing chemical equations on the blackboard, explaining while writing:

"Sodium bicarbonate reacts with hydrochloric acid, which is an exothermic reaction, producing sodium chloride, carbon dioxide and water..."

Lin Zhenhua and Wei Dongqi stopped in their tracks, not daring to disturb the old gentleman in class.Wei Dongqi whispered to Lin Zhenhua: "This old gentleman is He Lao. It seems that he is much older than ten years ago."

Lin Zhenhua looked at He Chengshan, and saw that he was about 1.7 meters tall, and his body was thin, like a bamboo pole.His hair was all white, and his eyes seemed to have some cataracts, and he couldn't see much brilliance.Since there were more than a dozen students around him, and he was lecturing outdoors, he tried his best to raise his voice, but after all, he was short of breath, and often after saying a few words, his voice would weaken, and he had to stop to take a breath, and then Let's go on.

"Mr. He is really old, and his ambition is a thousand miles away. It is not easy to give the children extra lessons at such an advanced age." Lin Zhenhua said with emotion.

Wei Dongqi said: "He has always been so enthusiastic. In the past, when we were doing research together, he often gave lectures to us young people, but his voice was very loud at that time."

"Tell you about sodium bicarbonate too?" Lin Zhenhua asked curiously.

Wei Dongqi said with a smile: "Of course it is impossible. He told us about the fracture toughness of materials and how to measure the fracture toughness of materials by indentation method and unilateral notch beam method."

"Is this the content of physics?" Lin Zhenhua said.As a graduate student in the Department of Mechanical Engineering, he is relatively familiar with fracture toughness, at least he knows that this thing is different from sodium bicarbonate.

"The old man is a mechanical student, but he must understand this kind of middle school chemistry. He probably wants to use his spare energy to help the children in the community make up lessons." Wei Dongqi guessed.

The two of them were talking in a low voice, and He Chengshan's class had already been finished.The students stood up abruptly, packed up their stationery, said goodbye to He Chengshan, and left in a short while.An old lady came out from the doorway on the side, and began to help He Chengshan tidy up the small stools that the students were sitting on, and put them aside.There is a tacit understanding between the old lady and He Chengshan, and it is estimated that she should be He Chengshan's wife.

Seeing this, Wei Dongqi and Lin Zhenhua hurried forward to help.Lin Zhenhua said: "Mr. He, Auntie, please leave it alone. I'll help you clean it up."

"Oh, it's okay, it's nothing to trouble." He Chengshan said casually. He raised his head and glanced at Lin Zhenhua and Lin Zhenhua. Seeing that they were not people he knew, he couldn't help being a little strange: "You two are...how do you know me?"

Wei Dongqi smiled and said, "Mr. He, you don't remember me? I'm Xiao Wei."

"Xiao Wei?" He Chengshan tapped his head with his hands, as if recalling the origin of this little Wei.

"I'm from the Jiangnan Petrochemical Machinery Factory. I worked with you when the 11-ton ethylene was tackled. Do you remember?" Wei Dongqi reminded.

"Oh, Xiao Wei!" As soon as the 11 tons of ethylene was mentioned, He Chengshan's memory was awakened. He grabbed Wei Dongqi's hand and coughed excitedly: "Oh, it turned out to be Xiao Wei. Let me Think about it, your name is Wei... Wei Dongqi, right?"

"That's right, Mr. He, your memory is really good." Wei Dongqi said happily. Although he was a relatively hardworking young man back then, his position was not comparable to that of an old engineer like He Chengshan.He Chengshan was able to remember his name, which moved him very much.

"Remember, remember." He Chengshan held Wei Dongqi's hand tightly, with a sincere smile on his face, "I still hang the group photo of us at home all the time, just take a look if you have nothing to do. You people, I I remember everything. Why, Xiaowei, are you here on business in Beijing? Do you have a place to stay? If you don’t live in a convenient place, you can just squeeze in my house."

The word "squeeze" immediately brought Wei Dongqi back to the feeling he had back then.Although they only worked together for a short time and haven't seen each other for more than ten years afterwards, He Chengshan didn't seem to have any sense of identity towards Wei Dongqi. As soon as they met, he was seriously thinking about helping Wei Dongqi save his business trip expenses.

"Mr. He, don't bother, I've already stayed at the guest house, and I came here to see you today." Wei Dongqi said.

Lin Zhenhua had already helped Mrs. He put the stool and other things under the tree, and covered it with a piece of tarpaulin.After freeing his hands, he walked over and brought all the gifts that Wei Dongqi had bought, and said to He Chengshan with a smile: "Mr. He, I am a colleague of Director Wei. Today I made a special trip to accompany Director Wei to visit you."

"Oh, you came here as soon as you came, why do you still bring something. How much does it cost?" He Chengshan looked at the gifts and said uneasily.He noticed the title Lin Zhenhua used to address Wei Dongqi, and he couldn't help frowning and asked, "Xiao Wei, you're the director now? These things weren't bought with public funds, right?"

"No, Mr. He, don't worry, this is definitely not public money." Wei Dongqi laughed.

"That shouldn't be bought. How much money can you earn as a director?" He Chengshan complained, "It's fine when you come. You can take these gifts back and ask the store if they can return them."

Wei Dongqi didn't know whether to laugh or cry: "Mr. He, let's talk about this later. How about we talk at home?"

"Yes, yes, you see, I am confused. Let's go and chat at home. By the way, you will all have dinner at my house tonight." He Chengshan came to his senses now, and he was still standing in the community chatting with guests.

A group of people walked to the unit where He Chengshan lived. Wei Dongqi and He Chengshan walked together and asked as they walked, "Mr. He, how are you doing now?"

"It's not good. People are old, like machines are old. The materials are tired and there are many problems. I have a little heart problem, and I still suffer from asthma in winter. Sometimes I can't sleep overnight." He Chengshan said.

Wei Dongqi said: "Since you are not in good health, why do you still give lectures to the children in the community? Why can't the community find young people to do this kind of extracurricular tutoring?"

He Chengshan froze for a moment, wanted to say something, but couldn't say it.While he was hesitating, a student who had just left ran back, ran up to He Chengshan, and said, "Teacher He, I forgot to tell you something just now."

"What's the matter?" He Chengshan asked.

"My mother asked me to tell you something. My brother was sick and used some money. She asked me to ask, can I pay you two days later for my supplementary tuition?" the student said.

"Training fee?" Wei Dongqi looked at He Chengshan, stunned.

　In the morning, I started to sit in front of the computer and prepare the code words, but it took a whole day to check the information of the vinyl device, and I didn't start writing until the evening, so I delayed the update, sorry.After posting this chapter, I will continue to code the next chapter. It is estimated that it will be midnight until midnight, so everyone will read it tomorrow morning.Before going to bed, check if there are any extra monthly tickets and vote for a few.My deputy moderator got angry and told me that the monthly ticket for this book has dropped to the 50th place, and he will lose all the bets he made with others.

　　
　
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